18. For the English Admiralty practice, see No. 46, notes 35, 63. Depositions were apparently taken both during the common law proceeding and after,
under the agreements cited, note 11 above. See notes 7-933–35 below. The interrogatories were presumably prepared during the pendency of the Admiralty
proceeding and were administered to at least one witness some time during 1769. See
note 3359 below. In the Suffolk files are two fragments in the hand of James Otis, containing
questions to be put to various witnesses. These are probably questions submitted by
Otis to whoever was taking depositions in the case, to be asked of the deponent. They
are set out in note 3965 below.